Issues in the transmission, analysis, storage and retrieval of surveillance video

Increased network capabilities and the prevalence of wireless networks have provided an environment where data and compute intensive surveillance applications can be realized as part of existing infrastructures. Nevertheless, careful consideration must be given to how such systems are designed an implemented. In our efforts to consider pervasive surveillance applications, this paper highlights some of the primarily issues related to the transmission, analysis, storage and retrieval of surveillance video and briefly describes our framework for video surveillance from mobile devices.